PENSTEMON VENUSTUS— rdh(2)18. Fouti- 
tain-like sprays of pure white, cool trans¬ 
lucent lavender, or sometimes violet. Very 
good. Everblooming tendencies. Pkt. 15c. # 
PENSTEMON WHITEDI — rh(2)10. Erect 
stems. Showy flowers of violet-marbled 
lavender. Pkt. 15c. 
OFFER 123A8—One pkt. each of above for 
$4.25. 
OFFER 124A8—One pkt. each of Penste- 
mons gracilis, laevigatus, procerus, specta- 
bilis, Newberryi, Purple Seedlings, secundi- 
florus and unilateralis, for $1.00. 
PENSTEMON BLEND — The above, and 
others. _ More than forty fine hardy Penste- 
mons in this blend. There is no better 
group ^ of hardy perennial flowering plants 
in existence, than the Penstemons. Pkt. 
15c; % oz. 35c; % oz. 65c; 1 oz. $2.00. # 
PERNETTYA TASMANICA—rmtatfy(htw). 
Pretty evergreen shrub-let, with amazingly 
decorative red berries. Pkt. 15c. 
PERSIMMON—See Diospyros. 
PETALOSTEMON VILLOSUS—ecbndx(3)30. 
Graceful, fine-leafed wands, with elongated 
flower-heads of silky lavender. Par¬ 
ticularly long-lasting as a cutflower. Nat¬ 
uralizes well. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 30c; % oz. 
60c. # 
*PHACELIA PARRYl—eok(l-3)16. Gaudy flowers, blue to 
violet, in velvet intensity. Few annuals bloom as quickly 
as this, yet it blossoms over a fairly long period. It is 
very much worth growing. Pkt. 10c. # 
PHACELIA SERICEA—ry(2)16. Lilac-lavender bells sit 
closely in tapered spikes, the far extended stamens give a 
plume-like effect to the whole, this enhanced by the silvered 
feathery foliage. Rare. Pkt. 25c. 
PHILADELPHUS HYBRIDS — qk 10 ft. Mock Orange. 
White blossoms, gold-centered, always with delicious fra¬ 
grance. Saved from fine named sorts. Pkt. 15c. 
♦PHLOX DRUMMONDI RADOWITZI—eox- 
16. Gorgeous Phlox, originating in Jugo¬ 
slavia. Everblooming. A most vivid shade 
of rose is marked gayly with splashes of 
snowy white. We have been reselecting 
this at Old Orchard, and it now comes re¬ 
markably true. Pkt. 16c. # 
PHOENIX RECLINATA—ehtw. Attractive 
and easy Feather Palm for house culture. 
Four seeds, 20c. 
PHOENIX ROEBELINI—htw. Considered 
finest of true Palms for house culture, ex¬ 
celling all others in elegance, grace and 
beauty. 3 seeds for 25c; 7 for 60c; 16 for 
$ 1 . 00 . 
PHORMIUM TENAX—htw. Sword-shaped 
leaves, often variegated; tall panicles of 
red and yellow bloom. Pkt. 10c. 
PHYGELIUS CAPENSIS — qfh(htw) (3)36. 
Cape Fuchsia. Blossoms of an explicit and 
glowing red. Flowers are about 1% inches 
long, and are carried in uniquely fashioned 
terminal panicles. Stem-hardy outside to 
about Philadelphia. It is root-hardy farther 
north, though, and may be treated there as 
an herbaceous perennial, since it blooms 
freely on new shoots each season. Grown 
also as a pot plant. Pkt. 15c. 
PHYSOSTEGIA DIGITALIS — ecbx(3)60. 
Large blossoms of that cool lavender that 
has lost almost its last trace of pinkiness, 
an exquisite amethystine shade. Within, though, they are 
shot with violet streaks. Pkt. 20c. # 
PHYSOSTEGIA FORMOSIOR—ecbx(3-4)50. Many tall stems 
that break into tangled tree-like tops, each slender branch- 
let ending in a short spike>-cluster of big, inflated blos¬ 
soms of rosy lilac, almost a pink. Splendid species, utterly 
unlike other Phj'sostegias. Pkt. 20c. # 
PHYTEUMA SCHEUCHZERI—erh(2-3)16. Flowers like 
fairy-flasks of vitreus azure, clustered closely in fluffy, shim- 
mery balls of blueness. Pkt. 20c. # 
PHILADELPHUS LEWISI—qk 8 ft. Excellent hardy shrub. 
White flowers, exceedingly fragrant, in great profusion. 
Blooms late June and into July, Pkt. 16c. 
PHLOMIS TUBEROSA—eubx(3)40. Well - filled whorls of 
downy lavender bloom. Attractive. Pkt. 15c. # 
PHLOMIS SP.—*ebx(3)30. Tall, strict-branching plants 
with leaves like Nepeta. Each stem ends in a fluffy spike 
of blue-lavender bloom. Very good. Pkt. 16c. # 
HARDY PHLOX HERE 
PHYTEUMA BLEND 
Bell-flowers, but with the bells changed by some strange 
magic to clustered, long-necked bottles of lucent, glassy 
beauty; or again, to wide and careless stars. Amethystine 
lavender, blue, violet or cream. Perennials suited to rock 
garden or lower border. Varying heights. Culture of the 
easiest, save for casualties to be expected in handling any 
very tiny seeds. Some ten species are in this blend, amounts 
of them saved this season being insufficient to warrant 
separate listings. Pkt. 20c. # 
For general beauty, long-abiding, and laid on in great 
color-splashes. Phlox, the flame-flower, stands alone. 
Sow the seed in late autumn, and it will mostly germi¬ 
nate the next spring with quite weed-like ease; or if It 
must be spring-sown, then put in the refrigerator first. 
PHLOX ADSURGENS—rstaty(2)10. The blossoms show ex¬ 
quisite blendings of pale soft pink and richest salmon rose. 
Evergreen, Rare. Pkt. 25c. 
PHLOX DIVARICATA—rbn8ty(2)16. In May its flowers of 
royal blue-lavender form sheets of pure color. It carries 
a dainty fragrance. Pkt. 20c. 
PHLOX MACULATA—cbnsty(2)36. Panicled flowers, rose 
to purple usually, but at times varying to pink or even 
white. Good. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 35c. 
PHLOX NIVALIS—ry(l-2)5. The Camla Phlox. Fine blos¬ 
soms of soft pink or pure white, over heather-cushjons. 
Splendid but shy-seeding, species. Pkt. 30c. 
PHLOX PILOSA—rbny(2-3)30. A showy species with flow¬ 
ers of brilliant electric purple, that seems adaptable to 
almost any reasonable condition. Pkt. 16c. # 
PHLOX SP.—ry(2)8. Vigorous, spreading mounds. Pink 
flowers in profusion. Usually re-blooms in autumn. Prop¬ 
agated from collected North Carolina plant; possibly a nat¬ 
ural hybrid. Pkt. 25c. # 
PHLOX SPECIOSA—ry(2)12. Splendid big blossoms of 
purest rose pink. A glorious thing, and rare. Not easy. 
Pkt. 26c. 
PHLOX PEERLESS HYBRIDS—ecby(3-4)40. Saved from a 
particularly fine series of border kinds, being mostly hy¬ 
brids of P. paniculata and P. maculata. Color range covers 
all possible hardy Phlox hues. Sown in fall, will be in 
bloom within a year. Pkt. 15c. # 
OFFER 126A8—One pkt. each of above for $1.36. 
PICE A ENGELMANNI—jk 150 ft. Silver Spruce. A pyra¬ 
midal tree of singular beauty, often silvery. Fully hardy, 
Pkt. 10c; % oz. 25c; 1 oz. 76c. 
PICEA EXCELSA—jk 160 ft, Norway Spruce. Particu¬ 
larly hardy and quick. Used for ornamental plantings, 
windbreaks, sheared hedges, and for commercial Christmas 
Tree plantations; this last, by the way, a mighty good 
idea for making waste land pay an eventual profit. Pkt, 
5c; % oz. 15c; 1 oz. 50c; % lb. $1.50. 
PICEA PUNGENS—jk 125 ft. Colorado Blue Spruce. Al¬ 
ways symmetrical, and particularly beautiful in specimen 
plantings. A good proportion should be of the desired steel 
blue; the rest silvery; all of them handsome. Pkt. 10c; 
% oz. 35c; 1 oz. $1.00. 
PIERIS MARIANA—qah(2-3)72. Flowers like giant bells 
of Lily of the Valley, but pink-tinged over waxy white. 
Splendid shrub. Give Rhododendron culture, Pkt. 15c; % 
oz. 60c. # 
PINE—See next page. 
PIPTANTHUS NEPALENSIS—*cbh(3)76. Butterfly blos¬ 
soms of mellow gold. Shrubby, south, but in north treat 
as root-hardy herbaceous perennial. Blooms freely on annual 
shoots. Pkt. 16c. 
PITCHER PLANT—See Sarracenia and Darlingtonia. 
PLATANUS OCCIDENTALIS—jh 160 ft. Buttonwood. Most 
massive of American hardy trees. Silvery bark. Pkt. 10c; 
% oz. 20c; 1 oz. 60c. 
PLATYCODON NEW GIANT EARLY—♦ecrbx(3-4)42. Im¬ 
mense flowers of blue violet like great bells spread to starry 
form. Sometimes variants of pure white, or white streaked 
with azure, appear. This Platycodon though soundly per¬ 
ennial, blooms first year as quickly as an annual. Pkt. 
15c; A oz. 26c; % oz, 40c; % oz. 66c. # 
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